[White House Conference on Aging, 1981: Health-Related and Medical Care Issues of the Elderly. Eighteen Reports.]

White House Conference on Aging, Washington, DC.

This document contains the 18 papers on health-related and medical care issues of the elderly that were presented at the 1981 White House Conference on Aging. The materials focus on the following topics: physical mobility, death, heart disease, nutrition, injury, senile dementia, post-menopausaul women, gerontological nursing, learning and memory, oral health, osteoporosis, pharmacology, physician/patient relationships, psychosocial factors, cancer research, high-risk patients, and sleep. A table of contents provides an alphabetical-by-title list of the papers along with appropriate references, tables, and/or figures at the conclusion of each paper. (NRB)